Ryan&nbspTapsell

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Full Name

Ryan Karl Tapsell

Background

2004: Sentenced on charges of indecent assault, intentional damage and male assaults a female and sentenced to 200 hours community work.

2014: A convicted paua poacher's prison sentence has been reduced. Ryan Karl Tapsell pleaded guilty to 15 charges related to illegally taking and selling between 395 and 526 kilograms of paua in Otago from May 2010 to March 2011.

He was sentenced in the Dunedin District Court in September 2013 to four years' imprisonment, with a minimum term of two years' imprisonment. In its decision released today, the Court of Appeal reduced this sentence to three years and two months, with no minimum period of imprisonment.